Statistics for First sentences in world literature

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"Call me Ishmael."	Moby Dick	85%
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."	Pride and Prejudice	84%
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”	1984	79%
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect."	The Metamorphosis	73%
"It was a pleasure to burn."	Fahrenheit 451	68%
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”	The Catcher in the Rye	62%
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."	Anna Karenina	56%
"Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."	Don Quixote	54%
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”	One Hundred Years of Solitude	54%
"‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."	Rebecca	49%
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."	The Trial	48%
"Mother died today."	The Stranger	41%
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."	The Bell Jar	39%
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."	David Copperfield	29%
"We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."	The Handmaid's Tale	25%
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."	Ulysses	24%
"All this happened, more or less."	Slaughterhouse-Five	18%
"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man."	Notes from Underground	16%
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	16%
"For a long time, I went to bed early."	Swann's Way	14%
"He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."	Orlando	12%
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."	Murphy	8%
"To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs"	The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas	7%
"Snowman wakes before dawn."	Oryx and Crake	5%
"Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping judgement would not be too heavy upon him."	White Teeth	5%
"This morning Rino telephoned. I thought he wanted money again and I was ready to say no. But that was not the reason for the phone call: his mother was gone."	My Brilliant Friend	3%